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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A top Uber executive suggested hiring opposition researchers specifically to spread details of the personal life of a female journalist who has criticized the company. Related: Here’s how to cancel an Uber account. 

Jill looks at the “help” offered by the so-called “sidewalk counselors” outside an abortion clinc in Boston.

On cultural appropriation in the birthing community.

Here’s your regular reminder that economic inequality in the US is totally. out. of. control.

An appeals court judge has authored an opinion that should put to rest any remaining legal threats to the contraception benefit under Obamacare.

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota warns Congress that approving the Keystone XL pipeline through their territory would be “an act of war against our people.”

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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